[ltp] Grub graphic boot images

Brad Stockdale linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:47:11 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, M. Leo Cooper wrote:

> Many of the xpm files installed by default in the system directories, such as
> in /usr/share/pixmaps, just don't look very good when used with grub. And
> there's a caution here. If the gzipped xpm file is too large, then grub will
> freeze up and not boot (have an emergency floppy boot disk ready, just in
> case!).
> 
> Anyone have any recommendations for a nice graphic boot screen?

GRUB only supports, if memory serves me correctly, sixteen colors in the 
splash xpm... I wish it supported at least 256... Maybe we'll see that in 
the future...

Brad